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My oldest son was a very reluctant trainer. But what worked with him was right before his third birthday I started asking him if he wanted underwear or a diaper (no pull ups offered) and if he choose a diaper I would just put it in him slowly. While I was doing that I would tell his teddy bear, the dog, his baby brother, dad, elmo, or whomever was in the room real or stuffed that when he turned three he would not wear diapers anymore. I never said it directly to him. After we had the diaper on we would talk about the birthday and who was coming and his cake and what presents he was hoping for, etc. If he chose underwear I would remind him that he had to use the potty. If he had an accident I would say nothing to him just put a diaper on him and once again explain to the bear the he would not have accidents when he was three. LOL Anyway, it worked, when his birhday was just two days away he started choosing underwear everytime telling me he was almost three. Now that didn't work with ds number two, he just did it when he was ready because he wanted to be like big brother and dd was totally against diapers pretty early, she liked to be clean. ds3 was already trained when we got him.
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